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Yiyun Li's fiction thrives in the dislocation that occurs as the modern China of mobility (at least for the educated and wealthy) replaces older Chinas (without the slightest hint that older was in any way better). It is a China of gay sons and day traders, of emigrants and gun massacres. Above all, it is a China in which family collapses under the pressure of the modern--the woman taken to an abortion by the lover of the gay man who impregnated her, the famous Mao impersonator cast adrift in th
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